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If Silicon Valley talks about death, it usually plans to stop it. When Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google,... Bothersome bots are only part of the problem for WeChat users, the dangers of a space bubble and how the prospect of... A hedge fund focused on artificial intelligence has raised 1.5m from a group of investors led by a founder of... Tokyo-based messaging app Line will launch a smartphone call-centre using an artificial intelligence bot later this... Schools risk being turned into "exam factories", warn business leaders who say the education system needs to be... Man Group's computer-powered AHL hedge fund plans to ratchet up its investment in "machine learning", a hot new area of... Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was best known for two things: his enormous ear trumpet (used to counter deafness caused by... Dystopian visions of a future in which machines sweep millions of people out of work are as old as technological change... Whatever happened to the human touch? If you believe the latest fad from the tech world, it won't be long before we... Facebook has hired Regina Dugan from Google, poaching the former director of the US research agency Darpa to lead a new... Facebook wants businesses to adopt bots to communicate with their customers on its Messenger service, in the hope that... While it sounds innovative, the phrase "reinventing the wheel" is more often used to describe activities that are... China's uptake of industrial robots is set to rise rapidly in the coming years as higher labour costs and the... On the bus to work at 7.30am, most commuters are half asleep, but 26-year-old Henrietta Hunter is doing her banking...